x, 465 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 21 cm
Examines the life of perhaps the greatest comic genius of the twentieth century
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-446) and index
1. Severed head -- 2. They grow so fast -- 3. "Humorisk" -- 4. Charged with electricity -- 5. You can call me Schnorrer -- 6. Listen to the mockingbird -- 7. Whatever it is, I'm against it -- 8. No sanity clause -- 9. His life was his jokes -- 10. You lose either way -- 11. Marx's dust bowl -- 12. Parodies lost -- 13. Two soft rackets -- 14. Just don't die -- 15. Groucho-off and Groucho-on -- 16. Manager or a keeper -- 17. Everybody has a temperature -- 18. O splendid and disreputable father!